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  • Why is the US government so afraid of Jacob Appelbaum?

    Julian Assange was set to speak at the The Next Hope hacker conference, New York in 2010: “Hello to all my friends and fans in domestic and international surveillance” he began “I am here today because I believe we can make a better world. Julian, unfortunately, can’t make it, because we don’t live in that Read more

  • Occupy Christchurch Womyn’s group

    In recent months a new space has opened up for radical women in Christchurch to hold discussions and organise around social issues. The Occupy Christchurch Womyn’s group first met several months ago when Occupy Christchurch remained active, but general assemblies had become tense and the safer spaces policy overlooked. Over the course of the movement, Read more

  • Interview: Right to sympathy strikes

    In its platform, the Workers Party (NZ) calls for the unrestricted right to strike. Here Ian Anderson, a writer for The Spark, interviews socialist and union delegate Andrew Tait, on a recent resolution supporting the right to sympathy strikes. The Spark: Can you talk a little about the Engineers, Printers and Manufacturers Union (EPMU) itself, Read more

  • Australian teachers show how to fight

    By GRANT BROOKES, in Melbourne 20,000 striking teachers marched to the Victorian state parliament in Melbourne on September 5. Outside the capital, 20,000 more stopped work in regional centres. It was the biggest teachers strike in Victoria’s history. They were protesting over very similar issues facing teachers and support staff in Aotearoa, including a below-inflation Read more

  • Marxist day school for Auckland contacts and supporters, Saturday September 8

    Auckland WP contacts and supporters will be holding a day school this Saturday, September 8, in Grey Lynn. Existing members and contacts will be meeting from 11am till 4pm. This will be the first of a new series of monthly day schools being held each month until the end of the year. The first day Read more

  • NZ Labour Party: The Man on the Roof

    This article on the Labour Party, by Giovanni Tiso, was originally printed on his blog Bat Bean Beam. It will be reprinted in the upcoming issue of the Spark. It’s as if he had forgotten he was the leader of the Labour party. It’s as if a Tory mole had swapped the speech he was Read more